[Marketing] QtCS registration (was RE: Can perhaps help a bit to prepare QtCS 2012)

[Quim Gil]

On 03/09/2012 08:04 AM, ext Claudia Rauch wrote:
> On 9 March 2012 17:00, Giuseppe D'Angelo<dangelog at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 9 March 2012 15:59, Sivan Greenberg<sivan at omniqueue.com>  wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Volker Götz
>>> <berlinbikerx at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>>> It was handled via some external website/service. One had to apply on that page, giving some reasons why one should get an invitation (being a code>contributor, etc.). AFAIK Alexandra then reviewed and approved the applications. Once one was accepted one got an invitation to the respective group>on Qt Developer Network. I don't know the gory details though. That just what I gathered on the dev net moderators' IRC channel.
>>>
>>> That seems to be the external service we used:
>>> http://www.confirmit.com/home.aspx
>>
>> FWIW even a simple thing like a Google Docs form may be enough. You'd
>> just have to ask "Who are you? Why you? Do you need sponsorship?"...

About the tool, let's wait for Alex to know her thoughts after the 
experience last year.

In the meantime we can work on the rest of details.

> Just a thought: you might want to keep the applications private and
> not on a public wiki, or google doc. People might not want it to be
> public knowledge that they ask for a travel sponsorship.

After some GUADECs, Maemo & MeeGo events, in my experience having the 
process fully public is quite healthy. Sponsors, sponsored and the rest 
of participants can see the good use of the sponsorship budget.

If someone has a really exceptional case s/he can always contact us from 
the backstage door.

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Quim